Tag: Trade facilitation
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04 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Pace of reform to determine shape of SA’s capital-equipment export recovery (Engineering News)
About 40% of capital equipment exported from South Africa has been ...
Regional industrial development in Africa – how can COVID-19 responses contribute?
03 Sep 20 BlogIndustrial development has always been featured in Africa’s integration agenda. In recent years this focus has been sharpened and industrial strategies at continental and regiona...
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02 Sep 20 NewsBreaking: Nigeria’s foreign trade drops to N6.24 trillion, trade balance hits N1.8 trillion deficit (Nairametrics)
The value of Nigeria's total foreign merchandise trade stood a...
COMESA-EAC-SADC develop Electronic Corridor Trip Monitoring System
24 Aug 20 NewsA regional electronic Corridor Trip Monitoring System (CTMS) which will allow cross border road transport operators, drivers, regulators and law enforcement agencies to record and ...
Lack of proper measurement equipment in MS affecting trade in COMESA
24 Aug 20 NewsSeveral Member States (MS) in the COMESA region are at a disadvantage with their trading partners because of the lack of reliable, accurate and comparable measurement equipment and...
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31 Jul 20 NewsDiarise (5 August): PIIE Trade Winds, with Anabel González. African perspectives on the WTO and prospects for regional trade cooperation. Is a new African voice on trade emerging?...
COMESA, EAC and SADC adopt harmonised Guidelines on Trade and Transport Facilitation
30 Jul 20 NewsThe Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on 29th July, 2020 adopted harmonised Tr...
Adopting ICT is critical in post Covid-19 trade facilitation programmes in COMESA region
08 Jul 20 NewsIt’s close to two months since COMESA developed and issued Guidelines for Movement of Goods and Services across the Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic. During this period, there...
WHO urges strong COVID-19 safety measures as African countries to resume air travel
03 Jul 20 NewsAs African countries begin to reopen borders and air spaces, it is crucial that governments take effective measures to mitigate the risk of a surge in infections due to the resumpt...
Digital Solutions for Trade Facilitation
01 Jul 20 BlogIntroduction
Since 1947, states of the world have been working to liberalize international trade by reducing tariffs, under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and since 1...
Digitalise transport and trade procedures to ease the supply of essential goods during COVID-19 and beyond
29 Jun 20 BlogGovernments across the world have implemented measures to stem the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Trade-related measures have been implemented particularly to ensure th...
SADC Regional Response to COVID-19: Transport and trade facilitation, climate change and the environment
24 Jun 20 NewsThe 7th Bulletin of the SADC Regional COVID-19 provides highlights of global and regional developments.
The world is currently waiting for a vaccine; this report provides highligh...
COVID-19: UN calls on governments to help landlocked neighbours
10 Jun 20 NewsWell-functioning transit transport services and procedures are essential to ensure people in landlocked developing countries have timely access to medical products and basic goods ...
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04 Jun 20 NewsRosa Whitaker, Stephen Lande: US trade is key to driving Africa’s post-coronavirus recovery (US News)
AGOA expires in 2025. Ideally it would be superseded by a US-Africa free tr...
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15 May 20 NewsUpdates on the closure of the Nakonde border post, COVID-19 testing for truck drivers
Zambia reopens border with Tanzania to cargo after COVID-19 closure. ”Trucks from both ...
COMESA ministers approve harmonized regional trade facilitation guidelines
15 May 20 NewsCOMESA will develop an online platform for exchanging information on availability of essential products within the COMESA Member States as part of the response measures to the COVI...
SADC embracing electronic Certificate of Origin
11 May 20 NewsThe review of the SADC revised Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) and subsequent approval by the Head of States and Government in August 2015 created new d...
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08 May 20 NewsECA leads discussion on Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown exit strategies (ECA)
African countries are turning their attention to lockdown exit plans as they seek to limit economic and ...
National trade facilitation committees lead reforms, respond to COVID-19
06 May 20 NewsThe committees are bringing public and private sectors together to ease trade in essential goods to combat the pandemic.
Trade facilitation reforms are at the heart of countries...
Regional business community push for trade facilitation in amid COVID-19
06 May 20 NewsThe regional business community, under the umbrella of the COMESA Business Council (CBC) have urged Member States to facilitate the movement of transit essential cargo across the r...